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74th Year No. 14 Good Morning! It's Wednesday. September 30. 1981 7 Sections 54 Pages 25 Cents
Truckers upset by ' load block9
By Tanya Barrientos
State capital bureau
KINGDOM CITY, MO. - Bert
Carner has been driving trucks
through Missouri for 32 years, and
he had been looking forward to
making his runs with heavier loads
on longer trailers
But Cole County Circuit Judge
Byron Kinder Tuesday blocked
that possibility when he ruled that
the state's new " big truck" law
can't be enforced unless it is en-dorsed
by voters in a statewide ref-erendum.
People Associated for Tomor-row's
Highways, a Kansas City,
Mo , group, blocked the law with
160,000 petition signatures request-ing
the referendum. Kinder turned
down a request by four trucking
firms that the law be enforced,
pending validation of the petitions.
" You can't blame truckers and
trucking agencies for being an-gry,"
said Carner between bites of
chicken at Gasper's Truck Stop
" It seems to me to be a pretty slin-ky
deal. I think they should go
ahead with what they passed in-stead
of listening to a woman who
OoryABm
Bert Carner says the referendum is " a slinky deal."
doesn't know about trucks."
He was referring to Victoria
Melcher, PATH'S executive direc-tor.
PATH mounted its petition
drive because its membership be-lieves
the new law will allow heavy
trucks to damage highways and
cause safety hazards.
Carner, on his way from Kansas
City to Indiana, said hot and cold
weather not trucks is the ma-jor
cause of highway damage, " but
you can't make Missouri believe
that.
" You've got all kinds of high- lev- el
technicians and engineers in the
government figuring it's the trucks
that are busting up the roads," he
said.
Other truckers pausing at Gasp-er's
said postponing the big truck
law will make Missouri " the bottle-neck
of the nation."
Longtime trucker Wally Silvia,
headed from Brazil, Ind., to Kan-sas
City, said the opponents of the
new law were successful because
truckers have a bad public image.
" Our industry doesn't present a
good image," he said " You just
aren't going to convince people to
support you when you've got truck-ers
using four- lett- er words on CB's
People resent it when someone
with only a high- scho- ol diploma
makes $ 40,000 a year."
Although truckers at Gasper's
agreed the law will be voted down,
they added that Missouri will be
forced to step up weight and length
restrictions, sooner or later.
" It boils down to dollars and
cents," Silvia said. " People are
being forced to drive smaller cars.
We must go to heavier trucks or
modernize an antiquated railroad
system they're not about to do
that"
Silvia explained that heavier
loads allow truckers to carry more
merchandise across the country in
one trip.
" That saves money. It's a cheap-er
haul. It's one of those deals that
really helps the people," he said,
adding that most people don't un-derstand
the economic benefits of
larger trucks
" The end result is that the people
are going to pay," he said
The big truck bill, signed into law
by Gov. Christopher Bond last
May, was to have taken effect Mon-day.
The law would increase maxi-mum
truck weights to 80,000
pounds ( 36 metric tons) from 73,280
pounds ( 32.9 metric tons) and max-imum
length to 60 feet ( 18 2 me-ters
) from 55 feet ( 16 5 meters ) .
In his ruling Tuesday, Kinder re-jected
a class- actio- n suit request-ing
that the law stand until the sig-natures
are validated a process
expected to take weeks The firms
filing the suit were Kaw Transport,
of Pleasant Valley, Mo., Cetco Inc ,
of Sugar Creek, Mo , Daniel Truck
Inc , of Mt Vernon, Mo , and Chur-chill
Truck Lines Inc., of Chilli- coth- e,
Mo
Trucking industry representa-tives
are considering appealing
Kinder's ruling to the state Su-preme
Court.
Gary AHmi
Trucker Ivan Baker, middle, discusses the truck law with Wayne Hostetfer, left, and Bill Powers.
ImsigM
Rape crisis t
Future dim
for centers
Scarce funding
slams doors shut
New York Times
NEW YORK About one- four- th of
the approximately 600 rape crisis
centers that sprang up around the
country during the early 1970' s have
closed their doors. This is a result of
scarce government funding and de-clining
feminist volunteers, accord-ing
to Pamela Klein, the immediate
past president of the National Coali-tion
Against Sexual Assault.
" It's real bleak right now in terms
of funding for crisis centers," says
Miss Klein, director of a rape crisis
center in Edwardsville, 111. Although
Congress recently authorized cer-tain
block grants to the states to sup-port
rape crisis centers, competition
for these limited funds will be fierce.
The Abuse, Assault and Rape Cri-sis
Center in Columbia has operated
mostly on local donations and volun-teer
effort since it opened in 1973. Di-rector
Lynn Baumhoff and 200 sup-porters
won a $ 16,500 appeal to the
City Council in their Sept. 8 budget
hearing. Without the allotment,
Baumhoff contended that the center
would have closed by the end of No-vember.
The rape crisis centers were cre-ated
as part of a wave of feminist ac--
( See RAPE, Page 14A)
i t
$ 1 trillion debt
gets Senate OK
WASHINGTON ( UPI) The Repu-blican-
dominated Senate voted
Tuesday night 64- 3- 4 to raise the fed-eral
government's borrowing au-thority
to more than $ 1 trillion for
the first time in history.
The vote to raise the debt ceiling to
$ 1 079 trillion will allow the govern-ment
to start its new fiscal year
Thursday with sufficient funds in its
coffers to pay its bills
Had the Senate missed its mid-night
deadline, the Treasury would
have been unable to borrow money
to honor Social Security and govern-ment
paychecks as early as next
Monday
Since the House already approved
the new debt limit of $ 1 079 trillion,
the bill now goes to the president for
his signature
Tuesday night's vote came after
the Senate soundly rejected an
amendment to restore the presi-dential
impoundment authority
which Congress revoked in 1974
It culminated three days of debate
on whether to raise the debt ceiling
from its current level of $ 985 billion
to past $ 1 trillion for the first time in
history.
Sen William Proxmre. D-' A- is,
staged a one- ma- n protest agaim-- t the
move, holding the Senate floor for 16
hours from Monday evening until
Tuesday morning.
But his vigil was futile, with the
Senate voting 63- 3- 3 to kill his amend-ment,
which would have raised the
debt limit from $ 385 billion to $ 995
billion instead of the proposed $ 1 trillio-n-
plus level
In making his speech, Proxmire
cost taxpayers more than $ 64,000
Capitol officials gave this account-ing
of Proxmire's all- nig- ht session
$ 47,433 to print the pages the
speech will consume in the Congres-sional
Record
$ 10,595 to pay the electric bill.
keep the dining room open and pay
maintenance employees who had to
sta on the job
$ 46,646 m police overtime to
keep the Capitol grounds secure Se-nate
Finance Committee chairman
Bob Dole, R- K- an , who acted as the
administration's point man on the
bill, argued that Proxmire's sug-gested
debt ceiling ' wouldn't get us
through tomorrow '
Dole successfully managed to de-feat
any moves to amend the debt
ceiling legislation since any varia-tion
wculd send the bill back to the
House for concurrence, risking fur-ther
delay and possible defeat
The onlv amendment GOP leaders
( See SENATE, Page 14A)
' Blue Monday' plays
to Wall Street profit
United Press International
The Tokyo stock market rolled up
its biggest gam in history Tuesday ,
as foreign markets battled back
from the frenetic '- b-lue
Monday"
selling wave Wall Street rallied for
the second day.
Analysts said overseas markets
took a cue from Wall Street, which
exploded in an 18 55 point rebound
Monday, despite American market
guru Joseph Granville's grim fore-cast
for one of the worst routs in U. S
financial history.
Most foreign traders ignored
Granville's latest prophecy that Wall
Street's strong showing Monday was
merely a " bounce" and that the
market soon would resume its dra-matic
decline before hitting bottom
in 1982
The Dow Jones industrial average,
which represents 25 percent of the
value of all stocks traded on the New
York Stock Exchange, was up 5 80 to
848.36 at 2 p m CDT in fairly active
trading.
The Dow had lost 188 points since
June 15 before roaring ahead to a
six- mon- th high on Monday.
Prices closed sharply higher on
the London stock market, which sus-tained
severe losses Monday on
Granville's prediction that an inter-national
market crash would follow
the projected bloodbath on Wall J Street
The Sydney, Australia stock ex-change
recouped some of Monday's
losses. But the Hong Kong market
finished down 27 06 points on the
heels of a 105.75- poi- nt plunge Mon-day
the largest single- da- y drop
since 1973
Gold rose about $ 2 an ounce on Eu-ropean
markets and the U S dollar
weakened slightly .
Prices on the Tokyo stock market
staged a record gam of 320 56 yen
and wiped out the worst loss in the
exchange's 31- ye- ar history of 302.84
yen Monday.
Tuesday's advance was the largest
ever on the Tokyo exchange and
eclipsed the biggest previous single
day nse of 223.10 yen on Feb. 5, 1973
Granville's doomsday predictions
hit already nervous international
markets, which have been laboring
under interest rates fears and con-cern
over congressional opposition
to President Reagan's latest budget- cu- t
proposals
Tokyo's sharp rally helped trigger
hectic buying on the London stock
exchange that pushed the Financial
Times Industrial index of the top 30
stocks more than 24 points higher at
the outset the largest- eve- r open-ing
rise.
The Financial Times Index fin-ished
the day ahead 23.7 points to
481.2, erasing Monday's loss of 17 2
points
City wants new housing in old buildings
By Jean Duball
Missourian staff writer
Columbia has more than 85,000 square feet
( 7,650 square meters) of empty space on the
upper floors of downtown buildings that the
city would like to see converted into apart-ments
or commercial establishments.
Assistant City Manager Bob Black says he
believes an influx of new residents would gen-erate
business for downtown merchants, and
thereby strengthen the local economy.
" The more people, the more commerce, and
the better it is for the city," he says.
Black says he believes there will be little
problem attracting tenants for the new apart
ments. The area's proximity to the University
and to shopping and entertainment centers is a
selling point
" Apparently, there's a market for it," he
says.
To interest owners of downtown property in
conversion, the city will present a workshop on
space rehabilitation at 7 p. m. today in the City
Council chambers. The program will include
one presentation by a downtown merchant who
has already converted upstairs space into
apartments and another by a local accountant
on the tax advantages available to those who
undertake rehabilitation of older buildings.
Phil Walters, owner of Dean's Town and
Country. 904 E. Broadway, converted space
above his store into two apartments The space
had been vacant for 20 years.
Walters says the building, despite its age,
was structurally sound and required only " cos-metic
surgery " to be suitable for living space.
The building's massive walls help to keep utili-ty
bills down, he says.
Walters says he had no trouble renting out
the apartments. In fact, he says, they were
rented before the conversion was completed
Walters is reluctant to talk about the costs of
the conversion, but says he was able to take
advantage of the investment tax credit and de-preciation
provisions of the tax laws. He as-sures
other property owners that conversion
can be profitable.
" Most ( downtown) property owners have an
asset that's not being utilized," he says " It
can be done to make money "
Steve Smith, an accountant with Williams,
Keepers, Oliver, Payne Si Rackers, 105 E Ash
St., says Congress sought to encourage owners
of older buildings to renovate buildings rather
than raze them when it made recent changes
in the tax laws Congress also provided incen-tives
to promote renovation for residential
rather than commercial purposes.
These laws, which take effect Jan. 1, base
tax credits on the age of the building. Renova-tion
of a building at least 30 years old entitles
( See OWNERS, Page 14A)
Journalism dean to step down
By Sara Foley
Missourian staff writer
Roy Fisher said Tuesday he will
step down as dean of the University
School of Journalism in August 1982.
Fisher, in his 11th year as dean,
said at a faculty meeting that he
plans to spend 1982- 8- 3 on sabbatical
in Washington, D. C., before return-ing
to the school as a faculty mem-ber.
In a letter sent Tuesday to Chan-cellor
Barbara Uehhng, Fisher said,
" I wish to advise you officially of my
plans to devote my professional in-terests
after August 1932 to writing
and teaching in the field of national
communications."
At the conclusion of Fisher's an-nouncement,
George Kennedy, edito-rial
department chairman, rose to
pay tribute to the dean. He said Fish-er's
shoes will be hard to fill.
" The best measure of a dean or
any other administrator can be
made when we ask the question,
' Has he left this place in better shape
than he found if " Kennedy said.
" What Roy leaves behind testifies
more eloquently than I or anyone
else could say."
Fisher, 62, said he told then- Provo- st
Owen Koeppe that he planned to
resign last summer. " I had spoken
with the Provost at the time and told
him of my plans. Since then I have
also informed the chancellor and
Provost ( Ron) Bunn."
Fisher was to have been evaluated
by Bunn as part of a continuing as-sessment
of all University deans, but
the evaluation was dropped because
of Fisher's resignation plans.
Fisher said he temporarily de-layed
his resignation last May after
( See DEAN, Page MA)
aSirS
Dean Roy Fisher plans to return after sabbatical
Iia town today
7 p. m. City presentation in
City Council chambers on re-habilitation
of unused down- - 1
town space for housing and j
commercial purposes. I
7 p. m. Nuclear Debate m the
Memorial Union Auditorium
sponsored by University Col-lege
Republicans.
Voter registration
Students may register to
vote from 9 ajn. to 1 pjn. to-day
at Brady Commons on the
University campus
Business 13A
Classified 3-- 5C
Opinion 4A
Sports 8- 1- 0A
Weather JZA

74th Year No. 14 Good Morning! It's Wednesday. September 30. 1981 7 Sections 54 Pages 25 Cents
Truckers upset by ' load block9
By Tanya Barrientos
State capital bureau
KINGDOM CITY, MO. - Bert
Carner has been driving trucks
through Missouri for 32 years, and
he had been looking forward to
making his runs with heavier loads
on longer trailers
But Cole County Circuit Judge
Byron Kinder Tuesday blocked
that possibility when he ruled that
the state's new " big truck" law
can't be enforced unless it is en-dorsed
by voters in a statewide ref-erendum.
People Associated for Tomor-row's
Highways, a Kansas City,
Mo , group, blocked the law with
160,000 petition signatures request-ing
the referendum. Kinder turned
down a request by four trucking
firms that the law be enforced,
pending validation of the petitions.
" You can't blame truckers and
trucking agencies for being an-gry,"
said Carner between bites of
chicken at Gasper's Truck Stop
" It seems to me to be a pretty slin-ky
deal. I think they should go
ahead with what they passed in-stead
of listening to a woman who
OoryABm
Bert Carner says the referendum is " a slinky deal."
doesn't know about trucks."
He was referring to Victoria
Melcher, PATH'S executive direc-tor.
PATH mounted its petition
drive because its membership be-lieves
the new law will allow heavy
trucks to damage highways and
cause safety hazards.
Carner, on his way from Kansas
City to Indiana, said hot and cold
weather not trucks is the ma-jor
cause of highway damage, " but
you can't make Missouri believe
that.
" You've got all kinds of high- lev- el
technicians and engineers in the
government figuring it's the trucks
that are busting up the roads," he
said.
Other truckers pausing at Gasp-er's
said postponing the big truck
law will make Missouri " the bottle-neck
of the nation."
Longtime trucker Wally Silvia,
headed from Brazil, Ind., to Kan-sas
City, said the opponents of the
new law were successful because
truckers have a bad public image.
" Our industry doesn't present a
good image," he said " You just
aren't going to convince people to
support you when you've got truck-ers
using four- lett- er words on CB's
People resent it when someone
with only a high- scho- ol diploma
makes $ 40,000 a year."
Although truckers at Gasper's
agreed the law will be voted down,
they added that Missouri will be
forced to step up weight and length
restrictions, sooner or later.
" It boils down to dollars and
cents," Silvia said. " People are
being forced to drive smaller cars.
We must go to heavier trucks or
modernize an antiquated railroad
system they're not about to do
that"
Silvia explained that heavier
loads allow truckers to carry more
merchandise across the country in
one trip.
" That saves money. It's a cheap-er
haul. It's one of those deals that
really helps the people," he said,
adding that most people don't un-derstand
the economic benefits of
larger trucks
" The end result is that the people
are going to pay," he said
The big truck bill, signed into law
by Gov. Christopher Bond last
May, was to have taken effect Mon-day.
The law would increase maxi-mum
truck weights to 80,000
pounds ( 36 metric tons) from 73,280
pounds ( 32.9 metric tons) and max-imum
length to 60 feet ( 18 2 me-ters
) from 55 feet ( 16 5 meters ) .
In his ruling Tuesday, Kinder re-jected
a class- actio- n suit request-ing
that the law stand until the sig-natures
are validated a process
expected to take weeks The firms
filing the suit were Kaw Transport,
of Pleasant Valley, Mo., Cetco Inc ,
of Sugar Creek, Mo , Daniel Truck
Inc , of Mt Vernon, Mo , and Chur-chill
Truck Lines Inc., of Chilli- coth- e,
Mo
Trucking industry representa-tives
are considering appealing
Kinder's ruling to the state Su-preme
Court.
Gary AHmi
Trucker Ivan Baker, middle, discusses the truck law with Wayne Hostetfer, left, and Bill Powers.
ImsigM
Rape crisis t
Future dim
for centers
Scarce funding
slams doors shut
New York Times
NEW YORK About one- four- th of
the approximately 600 rape crisis
centers that sprang up around the
country during the early 1970' s have
closed their doors. This is a result of
scarce government funding and de-clining
feminist volunteers, accord-ing
to Pamela Klein, the immediate
past president of the National Coali-tion
Against Sexual Assault.
" It's real bleak right now in terms
of funding for crisis centers," says
Miss Klein, director of a rape crisis
center in Edwardsville, 111. Although
Congress recently authorized cer-tain
block grants to the states to sup-port
rape crisis centers, competition
for these limited funds will be fierce.
The Abuse, Assault and Rape Cri-sis
Center in Columbia has operated
mostly on local donations and volun-teer
effort since it opened in 1973. Di-rector
Lynn Baumhoff and 200 sup-porters
won a $ 16,500 appeal to the
City Council in their Sept. 8 budget
hearing. Without the allotment,
Baumhoff contended that the center
would have closed by the end of No-vember.
The rape crisis centers were cre-ated
as part of a wave of feminist ac--
( See RAPE, Page 14A)
i t
$ 1 trillion debt
gets Senate OK
WASHINGTON ( UPI) The Repu-blican-
dominated Senate voted
Tuesday night 64- 3- 4 to raise the fed-eral
government's borrowing au-thority
to more than $ 1 trillion for
the first time in history.
The vote to raise the debt ceiling to
$ 1 079 trillion will allow the govern-ment
to start its new fiscal year
Thursday with sufficient funds in its
coffers to pay its bills
Had the Senate missed its mid-night
deadline, the Treasury would
have been unable to borrow money
to honor Social Security and govern-ment
paychecks as early as next
Monday
Since the House already approved
the new debt limit of $ 1 079 trillion,
the bill now goes to the president for
his signature
Tuesday night's vote came after
the Senate soundly rejected an
amendment to restore the presi-dential
impoundment authority
which Congress revoked in 1974
It culminated three days of debate
on whether to raise the debt ceiling
from its current level of $ 985 billion
to past $ 1 trillion for the first time in
history.
Sen William Proxmre. D-' A- is,
staged a one- ma- n protest agaim-- t the
move, holding the Senate floor for 16
hours from Monday evening until
Tuesday morning.
But his vigil was futile, with the
Senate voting 63- 3- 3 to kill his amend-ment,
which would have raised the
debt limit from $ 385 billion to $ 995
billion instead of the proposed $ 1 trillio-n-
plus level
In making his speech, Proxmire
cost taxpayers more than $ 64,000
Capitol officials gave this account-ing
of Proxmire's all- nig- ht session
$ 47,433 to print the pages the
speech will consume in the Congres-sional
Record
$ 10,595 to pay the electric bill.
keep the dining room open and pay
maintenance employees who had to
sta on the job
$ 46,646 m police overtime to
keep the Capitol grounds secure Se-nate
Finance Committee chairman
Bob Dole, R- K- an , who acted as the
administration's point man on the
bill, argued that Proxmire's sug-gested
debt ceiling ' wouldn't get us
through tomorrow '
Dole successfully managed to de-feat
any moves to amend the debt
ceiling legislation since any varia-tion
wculd send the bill back to the
House for concurrence, risking fur-ther
delay and possible defeat
The onlv amendment GOP leaders
( See SENATE, Page 14A)
' Blue Monday' plays
to Wall Street profit
United Press International
The Tokyo stock market rolled up
its biggest gam in history Tuesday ,
as foreign markets battled back
from the frenetic '- b-lue
Monday"
selling wave Wall Street rallied for
the second day.
Analysts said overseas markets
took a cue from Wall Street, which
exploded in an 18 55 point rebound
Monday, despite American market
guru Joseph Granville's grim fore-cast
for one of the worst routs in U. S
financial history.
Most foreign traders ignored
Granville's latest prophecy that Wall
Street's strong showing Monday was
merely a " bounce" and that the
market soon would resume its dra-matic
decline before hitting bottom
in 1982
The Dow Jones industrial average,
which represents 25 percent of the
value of all stocks traded on the New
York Stock Exchange, was up 5 80 to
848.36 at 2 p m CDT in fairly active
trading.
The Dow had lost 188 points since
June 15 before roaring ahead to a
six- mon- th high on Monday.
Prices closed sharply higher on
the London stock market, which sus-tained
severe losses Monday on
Granville's prediction that an inter-national
market crash would follow
the projected bloodbath on Wall J Street
The Sydney, Australia stock ex-change
recouped some of Monday's
losses. But the Hong Kong market
finished down 27 06 points on the
heels of a 105.75- poi- nt plunge Mon-day
the largest single- da- y drop
since 1973
Gold rose about $ 2 an ounce on Eu-ropean
markets and the U S dollar
weakened slightly .
Prices on the Tokyo stock market
staged a record gam of 320 56 yen
and wiped out the worst loss in the
exchange's 31- ye- ar history of 302.84
yen Monday.
Tuesday's advance was the largest
ever on the Tokyo exchange and
eclipsed the biggest previous single
day nse of 223.10 yen on Feb. 5, 1973
Granville's doomsday predictions
hit already nervous international
markets, which have been laboring
under interest rates fears and con-cern
over congressional opposition
to President Reagan's latest budget- cu- t
proposals
Tokyo's sharp rally helped trigger
hectic buying on the London stock
exchange that pushed the Financial
Times Industrial index of the top 30
stocks more than 24 points higher at
the outset the largest- eve- r open-ing
rise.
The Financial Times Index fin-ished
the day ahead 23.7 points to
481.2, erasing Monday's loss of 17 2
points
City wants new housing in old buildings
By Jean Duball
Missourian staff writer
Columbia has more than 85,000 square feet
( 7,650 square meters) of empty space on the
upper floors of downtown buildings that the
city would like to see converted into apart-ments
or commercial establishments.
Assistant City Manager Bob Black says he
believes an influx of new residents would gen-erate
business for downtown merchants, and
thereby strengthen the local economy.
" The more people, the more commerce, and
the better it is for the city," he says.
Black says he believes there will be little
problem attracting tenants for the new apart
ments. The area's proximity to the University
and to shopping and entertainment centers is a
selling point
" Apparently, there's a market for it," he
says.
To interest owners of downtown property in
conversion, the city will present a workshop on
space rehabilitation at 7 p. m. today in the City
Council chambers. The program will include
one presentation by a downtown merchant who
has already converted upstairs space into
apartments and another by a local accountant
on the tax advantages available to those who
undertake rehabilitation of older buildings.
Phil Walters, owner of Dean's Town and
Country. 904 E. Broadway, converted space
above his store into two apartments The space
had been vacant for 20 years.
Walters says the building, despite its age,
was structurally sound and required only " cos-metic
surgery " to be suitable for living space.
The building's massive walls help to keep utili-ty
bills down, he says.
Walters says he had no trouble renting out
the apartments. In fact, he says, they were
rented before the conversion was completed
Walters is reluctant to talk about the costs of
the conversion, but says he was able to take
advantage of the investment tax credit and de-preciation
provisions of the tax laws. He as-sures
other property owners that conversion
can be profitable.
" Most ( downtown) property owners have an
asset that's not being utilized," he says " It
can be done to make money "
Steve Smith, an accountant with Williams,
Keepers, Oliver, Payne Si Rackers, 105 E Ash
St., says Congress sought to encourage owners
of older buildings to renovate buildings rather
than raze them when it made recent changes
in the tax laws Congress also provided incen-tives
to promote renovation for residential
rather than commercial purposes.
These laws, which take effect Jan. 1, base
tax credits on the age of the building. Renova-tion
of a building at least 30 years old entitles
( See OWNERS, Page 14A)
Journalism dean to step down
By Sara Foley
Missourian staff writer
Roy Fisher said Tuesday he will
step down as dean of the University
School of Journalism in August 1982.
Fisher, in his 11th year as dean,
said at a faculty meeting that he
plans to spend 1982- 8- 3 on sabbatical
in Washington, D. C., before return-ing
to the school as a faculty mem-ber.
In a letter sent Tuesday to Chan-cellor
Barbara Uehhng, Fisher said,
" I wish to advise you officially of my
plans to devote my professional in-terests
after August 1932 to writing
and teaching in the field of national
communications."
At the conclusion of Fisher's an-nouncement,
George Kennedy, edito-rial
department chairman, rose to
pay tribute to the dean. He said Fish-er's
shoes will be hard to fill.
" The best measure of a dean or
any other administrator can be
made when we ask the question,
' Has he left this place in better shape
than he found if " Kennedy said.
" What Roy leaves behind testifies
more eloquently than I or anyone
else could say."
Fisher, 62, said he told then- Provo- st
Owen Koeppe that he planned to
resign last summer. " I had spoken
with the Provost at the time and told
him of my plans. Since then I have
also informed the chancellor and
Provost ( Ron) Bunn."
Fisher was to have been evaluated
by Bunn as part of a continuing as-sessment
of all University deans, but
the evaluation was dropped because
of Fisher's resignation plans.
Fisher said he temporarily de-layed
his resignation last May after
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Dean Roy Fisher plans to return after sabbatical
Iia town today
7 p. m. City presentation in
City Council chambers on re-habilitation
of unused down- - 1
town space for housing and j
commercial purposes. I
7 p. m. Nuclear Debate m the
Memorial Union Auditorium
sponsored by University Col-lege
Republicans.
Voter registration
Students may register to
vote from 9 ajn. to 1 pjn. to-day
at Brady Commons on the
University campus
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